New to Java

Hello
I am chagrined, but I cant see why this utterly simplistic code is giving an error. The error is "cannot find symbol, symbol class getInstance java.util.Calendar" Yes it really says class. I am asking for the method to create an instance of a Calendar for the default locale. And it does have that as shown right here in the javadoc, damnit. What am I missing here? tia.

package ad_hoc;

import java.text.*;
import java.util.*;

public class myDate {
  Calendar cal;
  public myDate() {
  }

  public static void main(String[] args) {
    Calendar now = new Calendar.getInstance();
    myDate mydate = new myDate();
  }
}